JOINT LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Natural Resource Public Interest Counsel

TIME & DATE: 10:00AM, Monday, May 20, 2002

PLACE: Cap. Extension, E1.012

CHAIR: Senator J. E. "Buster" Brown and Rep. Fred M. Bosse

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The Joint Committee will hear public testimony relating to the scope and
authority of the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission's Public
Interest Counsel, the resources needed to carry out the duties of the
office, and the office's relationship to other public assistance efforts
within the agency.

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